Mentor Support Worker
Henley Bank High School, Gloucester, GL3 4QF23 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
11 January 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
19 December 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 21.50 hours per week, working 3 days between Monday to Friday (working days to be discussed at interview) (with a 30-minute unpaid lunch break), Term Time only, Plus Inset Days
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £26,824.00 - £32,597.00
Actual salary
- £13,815.21 - £16,859.42
Pay scale
- Grade G, Scale point 8-20
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Successful Candidate will:
- Provide emotional support and guidance, to support young people with low self-esteem, anxiety or other barriers to attending school on a full-time basis
- Support the SENCo to identify and address specific barriers that prevent school attendance
- Support young people to develop essential life skills such as problem-solving and communication skills
- Develop individualised plans to help students improve their attendance and outcomes in order to be prepared to be successful in adult life
- To attend school team meetings and meetings with external agencies as required and to prepare reports and provide evidence of progress as required
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
- To work with the SENCO to ensure that the outcomes specified in EHCP’s are met and our most vulnerable young people make excellent progress and are provided with appropriate life skills
- Arrange and undertake home visits to children identified by the SENCo and co-produce a bespoke plan to improve the child’s educational outcomes and engagement with the wider world and ensure preparedness for a successful adult life
- To attend all relevant professional and multi-agency meetings, including EHCP reviews for all young people on the mentoring case load
- Carrying out initial assessments to ascertain areas that need to be focused on, setting individual targets and tracking/documents progress
- Provide Guidance and Support: offer advice, encouragement, and support to help mentees navigate challenges and make informed decisions
- Share Experience and Knowledge: draw on their own experiences to provide valuable insights and perspectives on various aspects of the mentee's development, such as career options, problem-solving, and skill development
- Set Goals and Monitor Progress: work with mentees to establish clear goals and track their progress, helping them stay motivated and focused
- Attending weekly meetings with the SEN Department along with attending fortnightly meetings with the SENCO
- Ensuring that the SEN provision map is up to date with current caseload for costings
- Ensuring safeguarding guidelines are followed, recording all safeguarding concerns using CPOMS and escalating any concerns with the DSL Team
- Act as a Role Model: serve as positive examples of professional behaviour and success, inspiring mentees to strive for their own goals
- Establish positive relationships with children, their parents and staff in schools
- Write high quality reports submitted in a timely manner to support additional referrals as well as ensuring that the graduated approach is effectively implemented
- Maintain the health and safety of all those involved in your sessions
- To monitor and evaluate sessions to improve the quality and impact
- To plan and deliver high quality and engaging 1-2-1 and small group mentoring sessions.
- To inspire children to lead an active, healthy, happy lifestyle
- To operate within the policies and procedures of the school
- To ensure that the work reflects the organisation’s commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion
- Maintain accurate records/reports and ensure required paperwork is completed on time
- Take responsibility for the health, safety, and welfare of young people with specific safeguarding duties
- Keep up to date with current affairs and maintain an awareness of resources that may be of benefit to the school
- Complete essential training
- Any other student support as directed by the line manager
- Uphold Henley Bank High School ethos and policies
- Work as part of the wider organisation and undertake duties as required to ensure the strategic objectives of the organisation are achieved
You will need:
- Hold at least 5 GCSE’s or equivalent, which must include at least a Grade C/4 in Maths and English
- Hold at least A Level’s or an equivalent Level 3 qualification in the relevant area
- A relevant qualification in management, working with children and young people, the delivery of alternative education programmes, social work etc.
- Coaching and mentoring skills
What the school offers its staff
What’s in it for you:
- Professional development and career progression
- Generous pension scheme
- An Employee Assistance Programme
- Gym Discounts
- Free eye tests
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to Blue Light Card Scheme
- Access to Teacher Art Pass Scheme (teachers only)
- Being part of a great team and expanding organisation
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Greenshaw Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people therefore this appointment will be subject to vetting, including an enhanced DBS disclosure.
Applying for the job
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About Henley Bank High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 876 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Henley Bank High School website
- Email address
- jhowells@henleybankhighschool.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01452 863372
Henley Bank High School is a 11 – 16 mixed comprehensive secondary school and is situated in Brockworth, Gloucester. We currently have 750 students on roll, with staff providing teaching, pastoral care and other support across the school. We had our first Ofsted inspection in June 2022 and were extremely proud of the outcome which was good in all categories. We are also extremely proud of the results our Year 11 students have achieved and the dedication that they and our staff have put in to achieve this is outstanding.
At Henley Bank High School, our aspiration is for all our staff and students to leave our school with practical wisdom gained through the teaching of intellectual, moral, civic and performance virtues. We build character implicitly, through our world class curriculum, teaching and learning in the classroom and explicitly through our Legacy Programme and Pastoral Systems. We aim to guide our students in becoming well rounded citizens of the future who can lead with honesty, integrity and resilience. The importance we place on this has been recognised through the school being awarded the Character Kitemark accreditation. Our Legacy programme and values of Ambition, Creativity, Confidence, Determination and Respect are the foundations of our Character Education programme.
All students have an entitlement to a broad, balanced and relevant curriculum. We believe that all students with additional needs should be taught wherever possible, with their peers in mainstream classes by subject specialists who use a range of teaching methods and strategies to develop students' knowledge, skills and understanding. Henley Bank High School was the winner of the NASEN Award for Secondary Provision which demonstrates the value that we place on our support provided within the classroom across all subjects within the school.
As a school, we really celebrate being a team and a ‘family’. This is crucial to us to ensure collaboration and support as well as ensuring that staff, students, parents/carers and the wider community feel invested in improving the school and the chances of success for our students. A huge amount of work has gone into developing this school over the last few years and we are so excited to welcome new members of staff to help continue this development, as well as bring their own ideas and enthusiasm.
We are ambitious about diversity and inclusion and very much look forward to receiving applications from candidates whose personal qualities and values reflect those in the person specification and whose experiences also place them in a strong position to deliver the challenges set out in the job description. We encourage applications from candidates regardless of age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, marital status, religion, belief, or race.
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